Hebrews 12:8
But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.
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- Ps 73:1 : 1 Book 3(Psalms 73-89) A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!
- Ps 73:14-15 : 14 I suffer all day long, and am punished every morning.” 15 If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your people.
- Heb 12:6 : 6 “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”
- 1 Pet 5:9-9 : 9 Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering. 10 And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
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- Heb 12:4-74 verses90%
4 You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.
5 And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?“My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.
6 “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”
7 Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?
- Heb 12:9-113 verses81%
9 Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?
10 For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.
11 Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.
- Prov 3:11-122 verses76%
11 My child, do not despise discipline from the LORD, and do not loathe his rebuke.
12 For the LORD disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.
- Deut 21:18-192 verses75%
18 If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,
19 his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.
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5 Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the LORD your God disciplines you.
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24 The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.
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18 Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.
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7 So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.
- Prov 23:13-142 verses71%
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
14 If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death.
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32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.
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4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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14 I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.
- 1 Cor 4:14-152 verses71%
14 A Father’s Warning I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.
15 For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
- Rom 8:14-152 verses71%
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.
15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”
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17 And if children, then heirs(namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)– if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.
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17 “Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
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4 If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
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8 Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
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19 All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!
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12 How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law,
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17 And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.
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8 For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.
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1 Admonition to Follow Righteousness and Avoid Wickedness Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.
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17 For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.
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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
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8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.
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1 A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer has never listened to rebuke.
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15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world
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14 Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,
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28 But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.
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9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.
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15 A rod and reproof impart wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained brings shame to his mother.
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18 and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the All-Powerful Lord.
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14 “But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father’s example.
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26 The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
- Gal 4:1-22 verses66%
1 Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.
2 But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
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17 Discipline your child, and he will give you rest; he will bring you happiness.
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15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.
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25 A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.